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Alzheimer's DiseasePhase 1/2NCT04248270

A Noval Tau Tracer in Young Onset Dementia

A Phase 1/2 study testing 18F-PM-PBB3 in people with Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia, run by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.

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Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

Dementia is a clinical syndrome which characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, behavior disturbance and dysfunction of daily activity. In aging population, Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is the most common late onset dementia which occupied about 50-75%, the vascular dementia, frontotemporal lobardegeneration… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 20 to 75 years
Conditions the study is for
Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Dementia, Dementia
What is being tested?
18F-PM-PBB3
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
100 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
20 Feb 2020to 30 Nov 2023
Phase
Phase 1/2
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 20 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Very mild to moderate stage YOD inclusion criteria:
  • Age between 20-75 years old.
  • YOD is defined by the dementia onset before age 65 years old. The dementia syndrome is based on the NIA-AA criteria of all-cause of dementia . Briefly it required:
  • Interfere with the ability to function at work or at usual activities.
  • Represent a decline from previous levels of functioning and performing.
  • Cognitive impairment is detected and diagnosed through a combination of a). history-taking form the patient and a knowledgeable informant b). an objective cognitive assessment, either a 'bedside' mental status examination or neuropsychological testing.
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  • The cognitive or behavioral impairment involves a minimum of two of the below domains: impaired ability to acquire and remember new information, impaired reasoning and handling of complex tasks poor judgment, impaired visuospatial abilities, impaired language functions, changes in personality, behavior or comportment symptoms.
  • The severity of dementia is limited from very mild to moderate stage in current project. The definition of very mild to moderate stage of dementia is based on the clinical dementia rating scale (CDR) from 0.5-2 YOD2019 3 Exclusion Criteria
  • Implantation of metal devices including cardiac pacemaker, intravascular metal devices.
  • Major systemic diseases including coronary arterial disease, heart failure, uremia, hepatic failure, prominent strokes, acute myocardial infarction, poorly controlled diabetes, previous severe head injury, intracranial operation, hypoxia, sepsis or severe infectious diseases.
  • Major psychiatric disorders, drug or alcohol abuse and major depression
  • Pregnant women or breast- feeding women.
  • Patients in whom MRI was contraindicated or patient had claustrophobia.
  • History of severe allergic or anaphylactic reactions particularly to the tested drugs.
  • History of positive test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
  • Indication of impaired liver function as shown by an abnormal liver function profile at screening (eg. repeated values of aspartate aminotransferase [AST] and alanine aminotransferase [ALT] ≧ 3X the upper limit of normal values).

Who cannot join

None listed.

About this study

Official title: A Noval Tau Tracer ([18F]PM-PBB3) in Young Onset Dementia: Clinical and Neuroimaging Study

Dementia is a clinical syndrome which characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, behavior disturbance and dysfunction of daily activity. In aging population, Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is the most common late onset dementia which occupied about 50-75%, the vascular dementia, frontotemporal lobardegeneration (FTLD) and corticobasal syndrome is followed. On the other hand, the young onset dementia (YOD), which represents the onset of dementia before65 years old, is only about 1/10 to 1/100 proportion of late onset dementia. The YOD is different from late onset dementia in the proportion of degenerative subtype (e.g. the FTLD is more frequent than AD). Besides, frequent atypical presentation of clinical syndrome in the YOD which characterize the different variant of AD made the early accurate diagnosis of AD is more difficult. Currently, there is no available data to describe the proportion of subtype in YOD in Taiwan. In AD dementia, two important biomarkers are amylod plaque made by ß-amyloid protein and neurofibrillary tangle made by phosphorylation tau protein. In the past, they only can be seen under the microscope findings at autopsy study. Recently, the new amyloid tracer and tau tracer had been developed and could evaluate the deposition of amyloid and tau protein in human brain. These progresses had substantially improved the accurate diagnosis of degenerative dementia. A noval tau tracer [ 18F]PM-PBB3, which had substantially improved the off-target binding and more clear background in human brain than previous tau tracer. In current project, investigator will aim to consecutive collect 50 YOD due to the neurodegeneration in 3 years using the NIA-AA research framework system(ATN system) to achieve accurate diagnosis of the dementia subtype by the detail clinical neurology study, neuropsychological examination, amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and tau PET study. In the first year, investigator will perform feasibility study to explore the topographical tau distribution in different subtype of YOD. In the next 2 years, investigator will perform a large scale study in a group of YOD to understand the amyloid and tau deposition and their association with clinical parameters. From current project, investigator could understand the tau deposition in different YOD subtype. Investigator also could understand the correlation between clinical phenotype and molecular pathology. Investigator will use a mathematic model to construct the model of diffusion kurtosis imaging from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and relate the white matter integrity with amyloid and tau PET imaging.

Being tested
18F-PM-PBB3
Medical subject headings
Alzheimer Disease, Dementia, Vascular, Dementia

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • 18F-PM-PBB3Drug

    All scans will be acquired in pairs of 18F-florbetapir(18F-AV45) and/or18F-PM-PBB3 PET scans (if patient select), performed on separate days, and at least 2 days apart, with either scan performed first. The 18F-florbetapir and 18F-PM-PBB3 protocol will entail the inon of 5±2mCi of tracer followed by an uptake phase of 50 min during which time the state of the subject is not important. After 40 minutes, subjects will be positioned and 4 x 5 min frames of emission data will be collected right at 50 min after tracer injection. PET/MRI scans will precede this acquisition with a MRI scan for attenuation correction; PET-only scanners will perform a transmission scan following the emission scan.

Study groups in NCT04248270
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
The relationship between image and AD diseaseOtherTo evaluate the relationship between F-18-PMPBB3 PET image uptake pattern and AD disease classifications.
Receives: Drug: 18F-PM-PBB3

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. understand the proportion of subtype in YOD

    investigator would be able to understand the proportion of subtype in YOD

    Measured: 3 years

  2. understand the mean tau deposition in different region of interest from subtype of YOD

    investigator will perform image analysis to understand tau deposition in different subtype of YOD based on 18F-PM-PBB3 tau tracer image. The mean intensity from selected region of interest will be recorded for different group comparison.

    Measured: 3 years

  3. understand the mean tau intensity in different region of interest and find correlation with cognition

    investigator will perform association study to explore clinical measurements such as cognition and demographic data associate with tau intensity from different region of interest

    Measured: 3 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted30 Jan 2020
  2. Study start20 Feb 2020 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion17 Aug 2023 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Nov 2023 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1/2
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
100 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04248270
Sponsor's protocol ID
201802151A0
Status last verified
Jan 2020
First submitted
21 Jan 2020
Last updated
30 Jan 2020
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing 18F-PM-PBB3 in people with Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia, run by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 16 inclusion and 0 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 30 Jan 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this combined phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

understand the proportion of subtype in YOD (time frame: 3 years). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 30 Jan 2020.

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